Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-07
sound the bow over the string, and listen,
and sound out over again, until all



and sound out over again, until all
THE KEYS ARE SCREWED
to concert pitch, ard the discords mel
into one great symphony, and the curtain
HOSTS, and the baton taps, and audiences
are raptured with Schumsn's "Paradise
and the PERI" Or Rossini's "Stebst
Mater" or Bach's "Magnifcst" in D, or
Gounod's "Redemp ion."
Now, our world can never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument. Even e
Cremopa would not do. Heaven has or
dsined the only instrument, and it is
made out Of the wood of the cross, and
the voices that accompany it are i'm
ported voices, cantatrices OF the first
Christmas night, when heaven serenaded
the earth with: "Glory to God In The
highest and on earth peace, good Will TO
men," Lest we start too far off, and get
lost In generalities, we had better begin
with ourselves, get our own hearts and
life in harmony with the eternal Christ.
Oh, tor HIS almighty spirit to ettune Us,
to chord our will with His will, to mod
ulate our life with His life, and bring US
into unison with all that is pure, and self
sacrificing and heavenly The strings of our
nature are all broken and twist
ed, and the bow is SO slack
it cannot evoke anything mel
lifuous. The instrument made for
heaven to play on has been roughly
twanged and struck By influences worldly
and demoniac. o master hand of Christ,
restore this split, and fractured, and de-
spoiled, and unstruDg nature until first it
shall wall out for our sin and then trill
with divine pardon.
The whole world must also be attuned
BY the same power. A few days ago l
was in the Fairbanks Weighing Scale
Mandatory of Vermont. Six hundred
hands, and they have never had strike.
Complete harmony between labor and
capital, the operatives CT scores
Of years in their beautiful homes
near by the mansions of the man
ufGcturers, whose invention and Chris
tian behavior made the great enterprise.
So ali the world over labor and capital
will oe brought into euphony. You may
have heard what is called the Anvil Cho-
rus, composed by Verdi, d tune played
by hammers, great and email, now with
mighty stroke and now with
heavy stroke, beating great iron anvil.
That is what the world has got TO cume
to-anvil chorus, yard stick chorus, shut
tie chorus, tcowel chorus, croWbar chO-
rus, pick-sxe chorus, gold-mine Choru+,
rsil-track chorus, locomotive chorus. Il
csn De dane, aud ii will be done. So a.;
social life will be attuned By the Gospel
harp. There will be as many
classes in society as now,
but the classes will not be
regulated by birth, Or wealth, or acct
dent, but by the scale Of virtue and be
nevolence, and people will be assigned to
their places SIS good, or very good, or
most excellent. So, also, commercial
life will be attuned, and there will be
twelve in every DOZEN, and sixteen ounces
in every pound, and apples at the bottom
OF the barrel will be as sound as those
on the top, and silk goods will not be Cot
ton, and Sellers wont have 10 charge hon
est people more than the right price be-
cause others will not pay, and goods Will
come to you corresponding with the sam
pie by which you purchased them, and
coffae will not be chickoried, and sugar
will not be sanded, and milk will not pe
chalked, and
GDULTERATION OF FOOD
will be a states prison effense. Age, all
things shall be attuned. Elections in
England and the United States will no
more be 8 grand carnival OF defamation
and scurrilty, but the elevation CT the
righteous men in righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer brothers reached he
lowest bass ever recorded, and the high
est note ever trilled was by La BxsGar-
della, and Catalini's voice bad compass
of three and half octaves; but Christian
IN yUnn6orfnIs Pnr oil n
and down the greatest heights and the
deepest depths OF the worlds necessity,
aud it will compass everything end bring
it in accord with the song which the
morning stars sang at the laying Of the
worlds corner stone. All the sacred
music in homes, 6nG concert halls and
churches tenus towards this consumma-
ton Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in your places
OF business. II we with proper spirit use
these faculties, we are rehearsing for the
skies.
Heaven is to have new song, an Ell
tirsly new song, but should not wonder
if, IS sometime on earth tune is fasn-
Toned out Of many tunes, or it is one tune
with the variations, so some CT the songs
Of the redeemed may have playing throuRh
them the songs of earth, and how thrill
ing SIS coming through the great anthem
OF the saved, accompanied by harpere
with their harps, and trum
peters with their trumpets, We
should hear some of the strains of
Antioch, sud Mouot Plsgah, and Corona
ti2n, aud Lsnox, and St. MartiDs, and
Fountain, and Ariel, and Old Hundred
How they would bring to mind the pray
ing circles. and communion dsys, and the
Christmas festivals, and the church wor-
ship in which on earth we mingled
have no idea that when we bid fare
we'll to earth we ere to bid farewell to all
these grand old gospel h INNS which
melted and raptCred our souls for so
many years.
Now, my frlends, If sin is discord and
righteousness is harmony, let Us get out
OF the one and enter the other. After our
dreadful civil war was over, and in the
summer of 1869, q great national peace
jubilee was held IN Boston, and as an elder
of this church had been honored by the Sc
lection of some of his music, to be rem
dered on the occasion, accompanied
him to the jubilee. Forty thousand peo-
pie sat and stood in the great coliseum
erected for that purpose. Thousands CT
wind and stringed instruments. Twelve
thousand trained voices. The master